1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am – what shall I say I am today?

Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,” said Scrooge, “answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?” Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood. “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine.

Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.